Facebook hits by LyinDan on The Pipeline at IndieMusicPeople

Facebook hits
So, when the stats improvements debuted, I thought I'd do an experiment. I have never ever posted any of my music to Facebook. But I happened to think. My 50th H.S. reunion is coming up. Hardly any of these people know me now. The present me. I just had finished chatting on Facebook (a rare event, believe me) with the organizer of the reunion this year, a very nice girl (ok. she used to be a girl. she's still very nice. Good person.). And I thought, well, maybe I should post some of my online stuff just to show em who I turned out to be. Now, I have very little online content compared to what I have done. Offline. But that's just hermit me. What's online is not far off from Me, though. So, anyway. I did. I posted on facebook, "Eat My Pickle", "Ocean of Love-BeatleSex (because I thought the over 60 (well over 60) crowd might appreciate it, being the Beatle generation, and my original "Ocean of Love". I didn't make a big hype of it, I just posted the IMP player with 5 or 6 words of comment.

So, in 3 days? 4? who's counting, using the new stats to track, there were, I think, 32 plays from this one day of posts.

Now, I'm a very very low key advertiser. And I don't have that many Facebook friends, because I'm so behind the times I think Facebook friends should be actual friends. But that many responses from an hour or two's postings has me thinking.

WTF? Really. WTF?

Are peeps really this bound up in Facebook?

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Richard Scotti

4/7/2016 4:56:49 PM

For better or worse, Facebook is an international obsession.

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LyinDan

4/7/2016 4:57:27 PM

Btw, Lesley, those were 11 plays of your version, 9 of mine :)

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Father Time

4/7/2016 5:30:40 PM

I think it's relative to how often you ask. You linking to one of your songs is a pretty rare event so it gets treated accordingly.

On the other hand I have worse luck with my links on facebook than anywhere else. I'm thinking my friends there just don't like my music.

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LyinDan

4/7/2016 5:40:21 PM

I dunno. Is it that or it that they think they know what to expect when they really don't?

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Father Time

4/7/2016 5:54:38 PM

yeah I think some of them, the last time they listened was in 2002 and I've come a long way since then.

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Two Silo Complex

4/7/2016 6:19:19 PM

Steve White mentioned in another thread that he had good results with facebook and plays.

Personally I hate it and I avoid it. So much spam and crap its amazing but maybe for promoting music its ok I have no use for it otherwise.

TSC,
Ken

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Stoneman

4/7/2016 8:12:11 PM

I usually do pretty well on FB. Been staying away as of late because so many people have political crap up. I hate that shit. Vote your conscience and leave me the F' alone. Been unfriending people in droves. I mean, you see this crap all over every type of media outlet there is. Enough already.............

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Noah Spaceship

4/7/2016 8:24:04 PM

people bound up in FB? - seems so

you have a load more friends than me. if it wasn't for my daughters and their 20 something crowd sharing my stuff, I wouldn't get shit from FB,

So that's pretty cool, Dan.

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